Trade and Finance.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7708, 10 January 1905, Page 3

Trade and Finance.

LONDON COMMERCIAL CABLES. LONDON, Jan. 8. Silvery i-S 3 15-16(1. Copper—Spot £6B 14s 6d, three months £69 14s Gd. At the rabbitskins auctions 1888 offered and 1667 sokl. Best advanced a penny. Low furred and suckers were at par to a half-penny decline. Sheep—Canterbury light 4|d, medium 4}d, heavy 4Jd, Dunedin and Southland none offering, North Inland 4|d. Lambs—None offering. . Beef—Fores 3d. hinds 3Jd. Biver Plate Sheep—heavy 3 light 3 fd. Bee/ fores 211-16 d, hinds Bid. Hemp, quite unchanged. WOOL SALES. (Received Jan. 9, 9.51 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 9. Lhe wool sales opened with prices slightly irregular, but no material alteration of last year's closing rates was noticeable. Greasy sold up to 12d, and scoureds to 18Jd per lb. INVERCARGILL, Jan. 9. > At the wool sales to-day crossbred hogget clips brought to 12jd, and 12{d for ewe. Compared with test year's prices crossbred super was worth 3d to 4d mort(. medium Id to 2Jdp inferior 2Jid to 3d, halfbred good td to Id, and half-bred medium 1 Jfi to 2. Lincoln ewe brought Wjd anid hogget 9i}d, as against 6»d last year; bellies 3Jd to 4jtq. piecesi 4jd to sd. The sale .went with great spirit, and some vendors, confident of obtaining ev#n Jietter values, withdrew their lots. HOMEBUSH STOCK MARKET. SYDNEY, Jan. 9. Sheep.—Unchanged. Best wethers 16s 3d, ewes 16s 3d. Cattle.—He demand is strong Best bullocks £9 10s, good £9 5s best cows £7 10s, good £6 ss. Best beef averaged 22s 6d per 1001b. AGENT-GENERAL'S ADVICE. WELLINGTON, Jan. 9. The Department of Industries and Commerce has received the following _£ablegram from the Agent-Gen-eral, dated London, Bth inst. : The frozen meat market is very dull, aind quotations show a weaker tendency. Butter continues in active demand, the market being firm, with a hardening tendency. The average price of choicest New Zealand butter to'day is "100s. - The cheese market is active and advancing, the average price of finest New Zealand being 525. The hemp market is very quiet at about last week's price. There has been no alteration in the cocksfoot seed market since last week. Importations of River Plate mutton for the month of Decenfccr were London 65,863, Liverpool 129,343, Hull 6223, Cardiff 4523, Newcastle 11,243, Plymouth 837. Lamb—London 4634, Liverpool 6831. Butter—--10,037 cwt. was distributed over London, Liverpool, Hull and South- ' ainpton. f